All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the
direct result of his own thoughts.
- [Achievement]

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and
the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
- [Effort]

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as
your dominant aspiration.
- [Desire]

She did not wish any supper and she sank forgetfully back into
the stately oak chair.
- The Mettle of the Pasture
[Books (First Lines)]

The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold,
stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became
sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of
dear ancestral Britain.
- The Reign of Law [Books (First Lines)]